OAKLAND, CA (July 26, 2018) – Holy Names University, a member of the Association of Independent California Colleges and Universities (AICCU), is one of 36 private, nonprofit four-year colleges and universities who will offer guaranteed acceptance and a more affordable, seamless pathway to transfer students from California Community Colleges.

It’s the first full day of an international youth conference and five girls from different points on the globe find themselves seated together at an HNU picnic bench contemplating the unthinkable: If forced to flee their home country, what single item would each pack to assist in their survival?

OAKLAND, CA (July 12, 2018) – Holy Names University announces the appointment of John Muccigrosso as interim provost and vice president for Academic Affairs. The appointment, effective July 1, is expected to last throughout the coming academic year while the University conducts a nationwide search for a permanent Academic Affairs administrator.

Future students training to become nurses at Holy Names University are expected to benefit from a $124,000 grant that will strengthen mentoring resources available on campus while promoting enrollment in the Department of Nursing.

Before Chantilly Apollon and colleagues figured out a way, researchers had trouble spotting elusive cells that play a role in some cancers. Study results appear in July’s Developmental Biology journal.

Within hours of receiving the news May 14 that Sister Christine Patrinos ’81, PhD, had lost her brave battle with cancer, the Holy Names University community gathered to remember her with fondness, tears and laughter.

In recognition of her work as a folk song researcher and translator, an inspired creator of undergraduate curriculum, and an inspiring educator, HNU Lecturer in Music Gail Needleman '98 MM has received the Organization of American Kodály Educators’ Lifetime Achievement Award.

More than 300 HNU students, staff, and faculty members gathered to celebrate Founders’ Day 2018, an annual tradition commemorating the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary Sisters’ arrival in California in 1868.

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